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Google Inc. dominates India’s nascent Internet advertising industry – so much so, that the country’s antitrust regulators are investigating the company for anticompetitive practices. But the U.S. tech giant isn’t the only option for Indian companies looking to monetize their websites or market their brands online.

Indeed, the sector is getting more interesting as local companies get more aggressive and raise the capital to grow and compete with Google. Read More »

A recent article in IBD’s Investors.com highlights the strong rise in the popularity of video advertising among brand advertisers in the US, as well as the potential headroom for growth.

Investors.com Site

This trend should spell good news for Indian VC funds Helion Ventures and Nexus Ventures which have, between them, invested in three cross-border companies that operate in the online video ads space – vdopia, jivox and komli.

Helion Ventures invested in Jivox in 2008 and Komli in 2007. Nexus Ventures had invested $4 million in Vdopia, in 2008. Vdopia has almost 80% market share and have done over 200 campaigns in 2009. In an interview on ChannelTimes, Vdopia’s Saurabh Bhatia laid out aggressive India plans, specifically targetting mobile video advertising in India. Read More »

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